To Comrade Chicherin,

I received your letter concerning the Dashnaks.¹ I do not object to the negotiations you propose with Ali-Fuad.²

4 — VIII — [19]21 L. Lenin

Printed from typewritten text

**FOOTNOTES:**

1 A. P. Pinkevich — worker in Soviet higher education. From 1903 to 1908 was a member of the RSDLP. From 1917 to 1919 gravitated toward the Mensheviks. From 1919 to 1921 was deputy, and then chairman of the Commission for the Improvement of the Living Conditions of Scholars.

2 K. E. Voroshilov — outstanding figure of the Communist Party and Soviet state. Party member since 1903. From 1919 to 1921 — one of the organizers and member of the Revolutionary War Council of the Cavalry Army. During this time — commander of the North Caucasus Military District. Later — People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the USSR.

3 Demyan Bedny — outstanding Soviet poet, member of the Bolshevik party since 1912.

I. P. Goldenberg — Social-Democrat. After the II Congress of the RSDLP — Bolshevik. During the period of the new revolutionary upsurge — a conciliator. In 1920 was again admitted to the Bolshevik party. Journalist.

N. A. Rozhkov — historian and publicist, Menshevik. Greeted the October Revolution with hostility. Conducted struggle against Soviet power. By decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) in December 1922 was warned of expulsion from Soviet Russia in case of continuation of anti-Soviet activity. Subsequently broke with the Mensheviks, was engaged in scholarly-pedagogical and administrative work in various institutions.

4 G. G. Gerbeck — in 1921 — deputy chairman of Uralpromburo of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and deputy head of the chief administration for supply of the Red Army.